The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-28
ARRESTED AT@LAST5
TWO rNCEND1AnrEs RUN DOWN
Aud Lodged In Jail in Little washipgson for
q Crimo Committed last September at
Tnylorstown-.rhe Perseverance, a
fis and Pluck Of ono Man docs It..

On tho afternoon Of Thursday, Septem.
ber Is, about 5 o'clock In the evening, tht
fine large barn OIL R. W. &L. M. Oroth
era, about mile from Taylorstown
Washington county, was discovered to be
on fire, and so rapidly did the flanes
spread tina. In an inconcsivably shorI
time the barn was in ashes, with its valu
able contents, consisting OF grain, hay
farm Implements and machinery. The
residence Of Mr.. L. NJ. Crotherg, the juniol
member Of the firm, was close to the
barn, and 1t wss saved from destruction
only BY the hatdoat kind Of work. Only
two members Of the Orothors household
wero at home when the fire broke ont
these being the hired girl and visitor
who camo to see her. The family were at
the Washington County Fair, at Wash.
iDgson, but fortunately returned home
when the fire was about half over. The
roof OF the house caught Ere once or
twice, but tho flames were exsinguished,
Fortunately there wan no stock or sheen
In The barn at the time, as there usually
was, or the loss would have been heavier,
As 1t was tho fire entailed loss OF about
$500 on tho Meaars. Crothers. .f' b.,
As there was no way In which FIRE
could have originated in the building or
been accidentally communicated to It, the
only tenable theory was that an incen.
diary had started the blaze. 3. f7'IT,
THE GUILTY PARTIES,
There was little to indicate who the in
cendiaries we're. Shortly before the fire
the two girls In the house saw two men
come down from hill back of the ho,lse.
They were James Dallas Mazingo and bis
aon, Daniel NJ Mazingo. The old man
went down past the house on the sido op-
posite the barn, while the young man
wont down through an orchard, stopping
to shake some pears out of a. tres, and
then on past the barn. He walked to the
railroad station, possibly q mile, eand cat
down OIL the platform with his face toward
the barn and In full view Of 1t, and fell to
reading cheap novel. In very few
minutes after, the fire was discovered by
two men passing on the railroad. 4. ,E3
The facts mentioned here would have
perhapa been sufficient to arouse suspi-
clon that young Mazingo was tho incen :
diary. Before they were commune sted
to Mr.. L. Al. Croshers, however, he had
noticed peculiar furtive behavior about
the mGn which led him to suspect him.
The circumstances narrated above con-
frmcd thoae nuspicions. In few dsys
s!ieI the fire q stranger applied TO old man
Mazlngo for board, and got it. Mazinao
lived just opposite the railroad depot in a
iraEle cottage eet high on bank. ii
TIE McTlyEs.
This stranger was E. B. Todd, an at.ache
Of the Perkins detective agency, OF Pitts.
bnr8h. He pretended to bo crook, and
gradually warming himaelf into the conf.
der CO Of the family, finally entered into
partnership with tho son to enter upon a
caEeerHof crime. Wednesday they went
to Pittsburgh to meet some men whom
Todd recommended ss good associates. 8.
! These men we're detectives Anderson and
Stevens. Anderson objected to going into
any achene until he knew enough about
Me7ingo TO trust him. With this induce.
nent MlsinXo told all about the barn
burning. Ho drow map to show how be
had laid allow fuse to a mine under the
barn, and. had arranged everything 60 that
it would be impossible to cave any part Of
the Btructuro. His method of working was
ahown to an INTELLlcENcRR reporter who
looked over the ground with Mr.. Oroth-
esa Yesterday, and , was very skill
fully chooen. Ho waitsd for over week
for IN opportunity to ire the mine. he
Taa inspired by desire for VEN
gesnce. He had been employed BY Nj,
C.o!heg, but had Lett him right in the
midst Of harvest and went over to Ohio.
He retu-nedsths first Of September, and
wanted to be employed by Mr.. Crothers
10 come to tho West Virginia State Fair
here with his ltoct. Ee declined to en-.
ploy him, and it Wss 1pi:ovn this account
that caused the incendiarism. y. AZ ~
Mszlngo and Todd came to washing
ton Wednesday night. Mazingo went 10
call on young woman, a formsr school
teacher named McGill. He was arreatea
in her presence by SAeritf Hemphill and
several other officers. He was at once
lodged in jail. He took cheerful viow Of
the matter, I.
ss.lti MAZISGo's FATHER HAS 4 Gryv. h g4 -